Chris Pearson, Chief Nurse at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust said: “It is difficult to add to what we have already said. This was a serious incident that was fully investigated and the trust will learn from it.

“Our sympathies remain with Mr McDonald and his family.”

Comments (5)

Trying to draw a lateral view of these deaths at RBH and other Hospitals I came to the conclusion that if I was the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident with a pedestrian and / or other road user and I was adjudged to be the cause of the accident then I would be charged with causing death or injury and driving without due care and attention, yet the Hospitals / staff seem to be immune from any sort of responsibility and what eventually happens is down to the bereaved to instigate.

Trying to draw a lateral view of these deaths at RBH and other Hospitals I came to the conclusion that if I was the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident with a pedestrian and / or other road user and I was adjudged to be the cause of the accident then I would be charged with causing death or injury and driving without due care and attention, yet the Hospitals / staff seem to be immune from any sort of responsibility and what eventually happens is down to the bereaved to instigate.alf-abett

When it said, MP, I thought it might be that Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn, had finally woken up from his sleep...
Still, I don't suppose that he will want to get involved, since he didn't raise any objection to it at the time it was proposed.
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Can't wait until the end of August, when this annual figures are released, showing the numbers of complaints against this hospital.
Want to bet that this the one thing that they have targeted resources at,
in order to 'massage' those figures?
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Instead of simplifying the system, they've created a set of different paths for complaint resolution, that doesn't require reporting in the figures that they are required to submit to the ONS.
Have a peek here...
http://tinyurl.com/k
5q2qgb
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I know of a number of people whom have been in hospital recently and not a one has heard of this.. Yet it's supposed to have been going since April 2013!!!
Ask around, see if your friends have heard of it...
I'll bet that they haven't.

When it said, MP, I thought it might be that Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn, had finally woken up from his sleep...
Still, I don't suppose that he will want to get involved, since he didn't raise any objection to it at the time it was proposed.
...
Can't wait until the end of August, when this annual figures are released, showing the numbers of complaints against this hospital.
Want to bet that this the one thing that they have targeted resources at,
in order to 'massage' those figures?
...
Instead of simplifying the system, they've created a set of different paths for complaint resolution, that doesn't require reporting in the figures that they are required to submit to the ONS.
Have a peek here...
http://tinyurl.com/k
5q2qgb
...
I know of a number of people whom have been in hospital recently and not a one has heard of this.. Yet it's supposed to have been going since April 2013!!!
Ask around, see if your friends have heard of it...
I'll bet that they haven't.woolywords

It is shocking that Gordon Birtwistle has said anything, He sits in parliament with the Tories and votes on the budget cuts they propose for the NHS. Nurses have not got the time to do the job properly as they are run off their feet. Some of the doctors seem to need training to a higher standard. Yet the budget cuts get deeper and the Tories will suggest privatisation would prevent this happening. They have almost got away with it, It would help if every one wrote to their M.P and published their response. If the Tories win the next election the NHS will cease to exist as we know it.

It is shocking that Gordon Birtwistle has said anything, He sits in parliament with the Tories and votes on the budget cuts they propose for the NHS. Nurses have not got the time to do the job properly as they are run off their feet. Some of the doctors seem to need training to a higher standard. Yet the budget cuts get deeper and the Tories will suggest privatisation would prevent this happening. They have almost got away with it, It would help if every one wrote to their M.P and published their response. If the Tories win the next election the NHS will cease to exist as we know it.mavrick

East Lancashire hospitals NHS trust should never have been taken off the special measures list especially when the local coroner Mr singleton still has cases of serious malpractice/discrepe
ncies outstanding !!!!!!!!!!!

East Lancashire hospitals NHS trust should never have been taken off the special measures list especially when the local coroner Mr singleton still has cases of serious malpractice/discrepe
ncies outstanding !!!!!!!!!!!POW WOW